Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa (IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027218749 ISBN 13: 9789027218742

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013

Synopsis

Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 9027218749
• ISBN 13: 9789027218742
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 343
• Editor: Atanga Lilian Lem, Ellece Sibonile Edith, Litosseliti Lia, Sunderland Jane